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A SCHIST PANEL OF MAITREYA IN TUSHITA HEAVEN
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY 9 x 15 in. (22 x 38cm)
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犍陀羅 約三世紀 片岩彌勒菩薩居兜率天石碑This exceptional panel depicts Maitreya (lit. "The Benevolent One"), the next buddha, now abiding in Tushita heaven as a bodhisattva, awaiting the proper time for him to take his final rebirth. He is carved handsomely, seated under a baldachin being fanned by putti who stand on the capitals of columns rising behind a pair of lions protecting his throne. Within his celestial audience, two bodhisattvas immediately flank Maitreya, the one on the left sitting on a wicker stool, which was a common seat for a bodhisattva in Gandharan iconography. Thatched and leaf-covered balconies are intricately depicted with supporting beams carved on their underside. Various onlookers lucky enough to have been reborn in Tushita Heaven populate them. A woman in the top right corner prepares to throw flowers from an arched balcony in adoration of Maitreya. The panel compares favorably with other examples of this subject published in Ingholt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan, New York, 1957, no.37 and (Zwalf, A Catalogue of the Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum, London, 1996, no.251. Provenance Sotheby's, London, 5 June 1989, lot 1 (front cover) Bumper Development Corporation Collection, Canada, 1989-2017 On loan to the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1989-2015